DeKalb gets late snow

Friday

Apr 11, 2003 at 12:01 AM

Parts of DeKalb County got a late snow Thursday morning, but the ground was not cold enough for it to stick.

Moderately heavy snow started falling at Mentone about 9:30 a.m. and continued for about an hour. Large, wet flakes fell at Geraldine beginning about 10:45 a.m., and sleet was reported at Collinsville.

Rain was in the forecast, but there was no mention of snow.

Kurt Weber, a spokesman for the National Weather Service office in Huntsville, said that the last time the area had an April snow was 10 years ago.

On April 1, 1993, the high was 42 degrees, the low was 34 and "a trace of precipitation occurred in the form of snow," Weber said.

Thursday's snow melted as soon as it hit the ground, but its brief appearance had the usual effect.

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